Mather Byles, Jr. (1734/35-1814), 1784

| Mather Brown (1761-1831)
| oil on canvas
| 30 x 25 1/4 (76.20 x 64.14)
| Gift of Josephine Spencer Gay, 1923
| Weis 26

Ex. Coll.: Sitter; to Catherine and Mary Byles, 1814; to Catherine, 1832; willed to the Reverend Mather Byles DesBrisay; sold at ‘Hon. M. B. DesBrisay Collection Sale,’ C. F. Libbie & Co., April 4, 1908 to Frederick L. Gay; to his wife, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1977, ‘Wellsprings of a Nation,’ Worcester Art Museum, no. 258.

Publications:
Franklin P. Cole, Mather Books and Portraits through Six Generations (Portland, Maine: Casco Printing, 1978), 200.
Dorinda Evans, Mather Brown: Early American Artist in England (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1982), 36-37, 201, checklist no. 36, fig. 12.
Edward A. Jones, Loyalists of Massachusetts (London: St. Catherine’s Press, 1930), plate 7 [misidentified as Mather Byles, Sr.]
Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, s.v. ‘Byles, Mather.’

 

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